Business router

Draytek are aimed at business use, normally IT companies favour them as they are relatively solid and have a wide feature set with a price tag they can make a bit off.

The Ubiquiti option is a great avenue to go down if you want to sit and get your head around the router and its features, VPN can be a bit painful.
 
Draytek for me too. Don't get me wrong for our main business mpls/global stuff we use more expensive cisco /riverbed/infoblox kit along but for individual sites the newer draytek routers do a sterling job. I've just bought some 910c APs for one site, so many features for devices that only costs 100 quid or so each.
Our Avaya phone systems all use draytek too.
 
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Draytek as modem / router, solid and reliable with very high performance compared to other makes i.e. billion high end modem / router vs. Draytek 2860

Unifi AP's for WiFi and I've been fortunate enough to have LAN "lab" equipment from Cisco (enterprise grade), otherwise Unifi LAN seems to quite well spoken of.
 
With a Netgate box you can pick up the phone and get support, you don't have to fiddle with tweaks to NICs for throughput, or chasing down faulty hardware.

I'm all for tinkering with my home stuff, even though I choose not to any more (my home network consists of a BT Hub 6 and an old Netgear 5 port switch), but if your business isn't IT then it's good to just run supported stuff.
 
I've had Draytek on and off for work for the last few years - they had a bad spell a couple of years back with faulty psu's on Vigormodem 120's and some very dodgy firmware for a 3200 quad wan, but other than that generally solid.
Currently use a 2830n at home (with openreach modem), and 3x 2860's at work and not had any issues.

If you are comfortable getting hold of something suitable, and maintaining it, then pfsense is great (indeed we run it on an old DL360 g5, to route between one of our old subnets and the rest of our MPLS/Internet connection), but even that has performance limitations above a certain level
 
My personal experience with Draytek was poor. Performed worse than my RT-N56U with Merlin's firmware so I returned it. It was the 2860 I believe.
 
I've got quite a lot of Draytek 2860's running at work. No issues, they are reliable and do the job. The cheap web-filtering licence is decent too.
 
Purchased a 2860vac last week.
Apart from a few setup mistakes on my part, our network is performing very well.
 
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